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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Jicin
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.
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In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.
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It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.
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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
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Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.
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Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
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Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.
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The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
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In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
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Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.
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Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.
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If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves and more than that, it is an instigator.
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Stupidity gets up early that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
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If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
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Talent is often a defect in character.
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They judge lest they be judged.
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